Saturday, March 5, 2011

IT News HeadLines (ComputerWorld) 04/03/2011




Will the cloud curb interest in 64GB iPad 2?
With consumers increasingly turning to cloud service providers for data storage needs, analysts say buyers might opt for 16GB or 32GB models instead of the top-end 64GB iPad 2.
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Not-so-great firewall of Libya is switched on
As it wages an escalating civil war, Libya has once again cut Internet service in and out of the country.
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NASA: Technical glitch crashes $424M Glory mission
A rocket carrying a satellite designed to help scientists study the Earth's climate suffered a technical failure and may have crashed into the southern Pacific Ocean.
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How to use your Mac without a mouse
Power users work their Macs faster than regular folk do for a variety of reasons. More important than a speedier processor is a speedier computist. Since your fingers are nearly always on the keyboard, controlling your computer that way--instead of taking your hands off the keys to control your mouse--can put you into the upper echelon of efficient Mac users.
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Microsoft launches IE6 deathwatch
Microsoft today launched a deathwatch for its 10-year-old Internet Explorer 6 browser, saying it wanted to "see IE6 gone for good."
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London Stock Exchange: What really went wrong
The London Stock Exchange has made a U-turn on the system requirements placed on data vendors such as Thomson Reuters, Interactive Data and Bloomberg, after three weeks of problems since the launch of its new trading platform.
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EMC chief Tucci nets 37% pay raise to $12.4 million
EMC Chairman Joe Tucci saw his own compensation climb 37% during what he called the best year in the company's history.
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Five exabytes of disk storage ship in 2010
IDC released its external disk storage systems factory revenues for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2010, showing more than 5,000 petabytes shipped for year-over-year growth of 55%.
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New 8.9-inch Galaxy Tab could join 7- and 10.1-inch models
Industry experts are expecting Samsung to unveil a new Galaxy Pro tablet with an 8.9-inch screen during an event at the CTIA conference late next month.
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Q&A: Google pushes Social Search despite Facebook gap
Once viewed as tools for posting trivial content on the Web, social networking and social media sites have evolved as bona fide sources of information publishing and sharing, forcing search engine providers like Google to factor them into their services.
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